Dana Gioia is the former Poet Laureate of California. An internationally recognized poet and critic, he is the author of seven collections of verse, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), which won the Poets’ Prize for the best new poetry volume of the year. His critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, and Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life (2022). His poems have been set to music by numerous composers, including Morten Lauridsen, Ned Rorem, Lori Laitman, and Dave Brubeck. Gioia has also written four opera libretti and edited twenty literary anthologies. James Morehead interviewed Dana for the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast to discuss his latest collection "Meet Me at the Lighthouse" (Graywolf Press, 2023). Reviews of "Meet Me at the Lighthouse": World Literature Today Front Porch Republic The Catholic World Report New York Journal of Books --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Sandy Longhorn has received the Porter Fund Literary Prize for Arkansas authors and the Collins Prize from the Birmingham Poetry Review. She is the author of three books of poetry: The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths, and Blood Almanac. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, North American Review, Oxford American, and elsewhere. Longhorn studied poetry at the College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, MN) and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She now teaches in the Arkansas Writers MFA program at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, AR. Website: https://sandylonghorn.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Eric Stiefel lives in Athens, Ohio with his dog, Violet.  He is a PhD candidate at Ohio University, where he teaches poetry and composition .  He received the Sequestrum New Writer Award for Poetry in 2018, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Penn Review Prize, and others.  He earned his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and his undergraduate degree from NYU.  His first collection, Hello Nothingness, was published by Main Street Rag in 2022, and his work has been published in journals across the globe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast February submitted poems episode features six wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Yanyi, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Poets featured in this episode: light// [verb] by Maddy Robinson Gathering Light at a Ferry Stop, Jesolo, Italy by George Yatchisin a brief history of birds of prey she said by Mara Adamitz Scrupe MET by Karin Falcone Krieger Hammer Head by Yael Valencia Aldana cardinals (they come in pairs) by Rachel Richmond --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-six books. Her work has been recognized with multiple residencies, fellowships, and grants, including an an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; six residencies at the American Academy in Rome, and an artist-in-residence position with the Andorran Ministry of Culture. She was recognized with the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions, among many other awards and honors. Kristina serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press & Tupelo Quarterly. Kristina’s latest book, “Look to your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle” was recently published by The University of Akron Press. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

As 2022, and our second season, comes to a close Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead shares his Christmas-themed poem "Among the scattered ribbons and crumpled paper" which first appeared on NPR’s Poetically Yours earlier this month. W’d like to thank all of the wonderful poets profiled this year with in-depth interviews, and the poets that 89 for inclusion in our monthly submitted poetry episodes. We’ll be back in 2023 with more interviews and opportunities for poets to have their work featured on our podcast. Until then have a wonderful holiday season and New Year’s with your family. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast December submitted poems episode features seven wonderful contributions read by six poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Poets featured in this episode: The Twittering Machine and A Question of Hope by Linda Eve Diamond Ruin, Canyon de Chelly by Alex Stanley A Pelican Feeding Her Young by Angela Sucich Dangling Woman by Cynthia Dorfman Dulce de leche stuffed churro by Ipsheeta Furtado When Rousseau Leaves His Studio He Sees Things Differently by Rosanne Ehrlich --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast we interview not one, but three wonderful poets about their collaboration to create Chalk Song. Susan Berger-Jones is an architect and poet.  Her written and visual work has appeared in Drunken Boat, No Exit, and two anthologies of ekphrastic poems published by Off the Park Press. Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge.  Her work has been published Tupelo Quarterly, This Rough Beast, Colorado Review, SpoKe4, and in the poetry anthologies New Smoke (2009) and Triumph of Poverty (2011). Judson Evans is a poet whose work has focused on crossing genres and collaboration.  He was recently named Haibun Editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America.  In 2007, he was chosen as an “Emerging Poet” by John Yau for the Academy of American Poets and won the Philip Booth Poetry Prize from Salt Hill Review in 2013. His poems have appeared in numerous journals. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Stelios Mormoris is a resident of Boston and Martha’s  Vineyard, Massachusetts, and formerly lived in Paris most  of his life, working as an executive in the beauty industry.  Stelios is currently Chief Executive Officer of Scent Beauty,  Inc. He studied architecture at Princeton University, where  he received his BA, and he received his MBA from INSEAD in  Fontainebleau, France. He has held positions on the boards  of the French Cultural Center of Boston, ACT-UP, Historic  New England, and The Fragrance Foundation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Donald Platt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, his most recent is Swansdown (Grid Books, 2022).  His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, and Yale Review, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Tess Taylor, who Ilya Kaminsky recently hailed as “the poet for our moment” resides in El Cerrito, California. Her poems have received wide national and international acclaim.  Taylor’s chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook competition. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, The Forage House, (an exploration of hidden family histories through archive and shard) “stunning,” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured in this episode: The Execution of Maximillian by Rebekah Bartlett Old Money by R.A. Pavoldi The Magician by Rose Oliver Three Ways of Looking at a Druid by Rosanne Ehrlich Yerushalmi by Simon Constam Deliver Me by Mon Malanovich-Gallagher Once There Was by Marie Chambers --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

This episode features eleven points, nine finalists (eight of whom performed live at the City of Dublin's Splatter Festival on Saturday September 10, 2022) and two honorable mentions. All have wonderful poetic focus covering a diversion range of topics. Finalists Kate McCarroll Moore Cara Sennott Ida Marie Beck Marie-Anne Poudret Rowena Tho Nguyen Carissa Maddox Inge Sorensen Sarah Abbett Honorable Mentions Ileia Thomas AKA Black Latina Lyrics Sterling Nguyen --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Yanyi is the author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space, and he is the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Poets House. He holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University. He was most recently poetry editor at Foundry. Currently, he teaches creative writing at large and gives creative advice at The Reading. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Pamela Wax is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received awards from Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Her publication credits include Barrow Street, Pensive, Connecticut River Review, Heron Tree, Glimpse, Mudfish, Pedestal, Pangyrus, Reed Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Sixfold, Solstice, and Passengers Journal, among others. Pam is an ordained rabbi who facilitates spiritual poetry writing workshops and walks labyrinths in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts—or wherever she can find them. Her forthcoming website is www.pamelawax.com. A trigger warning. Please note that this interview, because of the subject matter and themes of Pamela’s new book Walking the Labyrinth, may touch on suicide. If you are having suicidal thoughts please reach out for support resources in your area. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

This week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast takes you behind the scenes of an independent bookstore courtesy of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont. As writers and poets we have all spent many hours - and dollars - in bookstores. No online experience can replace walking down an aisle of bookshelves, searching for the poetry section, and being distracted by an intriguing book cover. Tricia Huebner is the co-owner of Phoenix Books in Rutland, Vermont which opened in 2015.  She grew up outside of New York City, has bachelor’s degrees in English and History, and moved to Vermont more than 40 years ago. When not working she is an avid reader and enjoys hiking, kayaking, cooking, traveling, and spending time at her cottage on Lake Champlain. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast August submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including Safia Elhillo, A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Featured in this episode: Saint Matthew’s Rectus Femoris by Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis Aubergine by David Holper The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia by Connor Simons Open Sesame by Norma DaCrema Paddington Park by Linda Drattell --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Sarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville, CA. She is the author of Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press, 2019). Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry, Red Light Lit, Eleven Eleven, Monkeybicycle, *82 Review, 100 Word Story, Fjords Review, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor's Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada, raised in North Dakota, seasoned in England, and tempered in California. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Cynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She has launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including Free State Review, Main Street Rag and Terminus Magazine. Cynthia’s new chapbook What We Do with Our Hands from Finishing Line Press will be published this summer. Cynthia is also a frequent speaker and global women’s advocate. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Born in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and raised in the Village, Tina Cane serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where she is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including The Literary Review, Spinning Jenny, Tupelo Quarterly, Jubliat, and The Common. In her capacity as poet laureate, Cane has established her state's first youth poetry ambassador program in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book, and has brought the Poetry-in-Motion program from the New York City Transit System to Rhode Island's state-wide busses. Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, poems with art by Esther Solondz, Once More With Feeling, and Body of Work. In 2016, Tina received the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry, from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She was also a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets and is the creator/curator of the distance reading series, Poetry is Bread. Her debut novel-in-verse for young adults, Alma Presses Play (Penguin/Random House) was released in September 2021 and her new poetry collection, Year of the Murder Hornet, came out with Veliz Books in May 2022. Cane is also the editor of the forthcoming, Poetry is Bread: The Anthology, which will be published in early 2023 with Nirala Press. We interviewed Tina for the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Poet and author Safia Elhillo discusses her new book Girls That Never Die with Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA, and author of canvas and portraits of red and gray). Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children and Home Is Not a Country and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in POETRY magazine, The Atlantic, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast July submitted poems episode features contributions from six wonderful contributions read by the poets. Different forms and themes are featured.  The submitted poems, read by the authors, in this episode include: Midnight Velvetto by Durell Carter Dear Creature and Before the Pool, there was a Saltwater Lagoon by Sarah Bitter Self-Portrait by David Radavich You Will Know Us By Our Art by Mary Amato a gathering by Jai-Michelle Louissen Honest Sonnets by Nicole Farmer --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Patagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances. Kimi Sugioka (Poet Laureate – Alameda) Cynthia Patton (Poet Laureate – Livermore) Tongo Eisen-Martin (Poet Laureate – San Francisco) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Patagonia San Francisco's Poet Laureate Celebration featured six poets laureate from across the Bay Area. In this two part special feature we present a replay of the live performances. Amy Glynn (Poet Laureate – Orinda & Moraga) Sarah Kobrinsky (Poet Laureate – Emeryville) James Morehead (Poet Laureate – Dublin) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Cutter Streeby holds an MFA from the University of East Anglia and an MA in Literature from King's College, London. He has delivered many lectures on poetics, translation, and translation theory, including "Navigating Lèse- Majesté: Translating the Poetry of Zakariya Amataya" at universities across Thailand and Malaysia while teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Publications, translations, and anthologies include The White Review, Anthology of South East Asian Poets (Vagabond Press), Chicago Quarterly Review, Chestnut Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cincinnati Review and World Literature Today among others. He successfully exited his first marketing startup in 2020. website: cutterstreeby.com Seaside Graffiti poetry film  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Beth McDermott is the author of Figure 1 (Pine Row Press) and a chapbook titled How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press). Her poetry appears in Pine Row, Tupelo Quarterly, Terrain.org, and Memorious. She’s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Francis and recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, an Illinois Speaks Micro-Grant, and first place in the Regional Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest. website: bethmcdermott.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Poets James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, CA), Jessica Sabo (author of Body of Impulse), and Rachel Abramowitz (author of The Birthday of the Dead) present a live mix of poetry readings and discussion. The event, recorded live, features a unique format: three poets, reading three poems, and after each performance a discussion of the poem. A round robin of readings and discussion. James is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, author of canvas and portraits of red and gray, and he hosts the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast. James' poem tethered was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn animated short film, gallery was set to music for baritone and piano, and his poems have appeared in Beyond Words Magazine, Wingless Dreamer, Prometheus Dreaming and Prompt Press. website: jamesmorehead.com Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Oxford. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Wave Composition, an intern at the Paris Review, a stock analyst (for three months), and has taught English Literature at The University of Iowa, the University of Oxford, and most recently at Barnard College in New York. She is the author of The Birthday of the Dead, the winner of the 2021 Marystina Santiestevan prize from Conduit Press, the chapbooks The Puzzle Monster, winner of the 2021 Tomaz Salamun prize (forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press in 2022), and Gut Lust, the winner of the 2019 Burnside Review prize (Burnside Review Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in numerous prestigious journals. Rachel is currently based in Brooklyn. website: rachelabramowitz.com Jessica Sabo is a former classical ballet dancer and writer whose work focuses on the intersection between eating disorders, trauma, and sexuality. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications by 805 Lit + Art, Inklette Magazine, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among others. Her work has been anthologized with ChannelMarker Literary Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Damaged Goods Press, and is forthcoming with Quillkeepers Press. Jessica was selected as a finalist for the Adelaide Literary Award in Poetry in 2020 and is also the author of a chapbook, A Body of Impulse, (dancing girl press & studio, 2021). A west-coast transplant and Virginian at heart, she currently lives in southern Nevada with her wife and two rescue dogs, one of which has wings. website: A Body of Impulse --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off June with six wonderful poems contributed and read by five poets: Shout and The Flag by Richard Evans Pillow Talk by Dana Kinsey Eros unwritten by Jeff Bien The Life of a Pretty Girl by Eliza Sible A Villanelle for the Ones Who Know by Erika B. Girard Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings to be considered for a future podcast episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Maggie Queeney is the author of “Settler” (Tupelo Press). Recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Ruth Stone Scholarship, and a 2019 Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago, her most recent work is found or forthcoming in The New Republic, Guernica, The Missouri Review, and The American Poetry Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, and reads and writes in Chicago. Website: maggiequeeney.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead interviews poet Carmine Di Biase about his upcoming chapbook American Rondeau (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Carmine writes about English and Italian literature, and his poems have appeared in various journals. Last year his English translations of thirteen poems by Cesare Pavese appeared in L’anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature. Occasionally he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement. He has recently retired as Distinguished Professor of English at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

On this episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast I’m excited to welcome Rachel Abramowitz, author of the recently released collection of poems, “The Birthday of the Dead”. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Oxford. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Wave Composition, an intern at the Paris Review, a stock analyst (for three months), and has taught English Literature at The University of Iowa, the University of Oxford, and most recently at Barnard College in New York. She is the author of The Birthday of the Dead, the winner of the 2021 Marystina Santiestevan prize from Conduit Press, the chapbooks The Puzzle Monster, winner of the 2021 Tomaz Salamun prize (forthcoming from Factory Hollow Press in 2022), and Gut Lust, the winner of the 2019 Burnside Review prize (Burnside Review Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in numerous prestigious journals. Rachel is currently based in Brooklyn. Rachel on the web: rachelabramowitz.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Writing publisher-ready poetry by James Morehead (Poet Laureate - Dublin, California, and author of "canvas" and "portraits of red and gray") and Morgan Liphart (author of "Barefoot & Running"). James Morehead is Poet Laureate of Dublin, California. James has published two collections of poetry: "canvas” and "portraits of red and gray". James' poem "tethered" was transformed into an award-winning hand drawn animated short film, "gallery" was set to music for baritone and piano, and his poems have appeared in Beyond Words, Wingless Dreamer, Prometheus Dreaming and Prompt Press. He also hosts the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast which features interviews with poets and artists. “These are poems to be savored, re-read, kept handy for those times when only poetry will do.” - W. J. T. Mitchell, Senior Editor of Critical Inquiry and Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History, University of Chicago Website: jamesmorehead.com Podcast: https://anchor.fm/viewlesswings Twitter: https://twitter.com/dublinranch Instagram: https://instagram.com/viewlesswings Facebook: https://facebook.com/viewlesswingspress Morgan Liphart's contemporary poetry reflects on experiences and circumstances that she believes can connect us all, no matter our differences. Her message of finding strength in vulnerability resonates with a global audience of readers. Morgan’s work has appeared in anthologies and journals across the United States and England, such as the University of Oxford's Literary Imagination, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Third Wednesday. When she’s not writing, she enjoys her career as an attorney and adventuring in the mountains surrounding her home in Denver, Colorado. Website: https://www.morganliphart.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mliphart/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast kicks off May with seven wonderful poems contributed and read by seven poets. Seven different forms and themes are featured. The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast explores the art of poetry through interviews with poets and artists including A.E. Stallings, Olivia Gatwood, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Kari Byron, Lisa Marie Simmons and more. Listen to the poems using your favorite podcast reader and then read each below: Opening by Olive Dwan Running Into Time by Crystal Mayo Hope in Halos by Airea Johnson Love in the House on Woodland Road by Inge Sorensen Seismic by Linda McQuarrie-Bowerman Portrait of a Girl in Relation to a Newspaper by Ivy Raff Love by Finbar Lennon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

James Morehead, Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, demonstrates how writing poetry can unlock memories and connect readers with universal truths. James shares memoir poems from his first two books, “canvas” and “portraits of red and gray”, and discusses how unlocked details from years or even decades ago through the poetic writing process. James also shares how to introduce “turns” into poems, to go beyond just capturing personal memories. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: . Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Nick Courtright is author of The Forgotten World, Let There Be Light, and Punchline, and he serves as the Executive Editor of Atmosphere Press. His poetry has appeared in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Iowa Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, and Southern Review, among dozens of others. His essays and other prose have been published in Huffington Post, Best American Poetry, Gothamist, and SPIN Magazine. With a Doctorate in Literature from the University of Texas, Nick lives in Austin with the poet Lisa Mottolo and their children. Nick shares his story on the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, including reading excerpts from The Forgotten World. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: . Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

For National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk. Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com. This is the second of two episodes. Poets featured in this episode include: Jennifer deBie - "Dublin" Monique Rardin Richardson - "Out Fool the Hands of Time" Patricia Boyle - "Wild Geese on a Gray Morning" Shannon Lise - "Body in the Sun" Kate McCarroll Moore - "I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" Christopher Buck - "Tercet Verdant Paths" Es Margolius - "30 Year Engagement" Bianca Amira Zanella - "bread box" Cleveland Wall - "Sacrament" Sanvi Pasala - "Dublin is a city of pride" Anna Yin - "As Much as You Know" Matthew Babcock - "Plato Dreamed" Marilyn Dykstra - "In sickness and in health" Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: . Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

For National Poetry Month, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast feature poems currently on display in the City of Dublin’s first ever Poetry Walk. Each poem is introduced and read by the poet. 26 local businesses and organizations across Dublin, California are featuring the submitted poems, and a map of all locations is available on ViewlessWings.com. This is the first of two episodes. Poets featured in this episode include: James Morehead - "At the crossroads" Morgan Liphart - "The Current Scene of my Childhood Home" Laura Amsel - "Collecting Feathers, February Mornings" Constant Hanstedt - "Lessons" Abbey Lynne Rays - "Overture" Amy Hollan - "Offering" Marie-Anne Poudret - "Hope" Rebecca Cristante - "Perfect day" Ishmeet Dhillon - "Ego’s Kingdom" Jessica Fox - "Eight Cats" Michael Waterson - "Gone Train Blues" Peggy Schimmelman - "A Poem in Three" Linda Drattell - "The Torrent and the Tree" Liz Fortini - "A Remembrance" Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: . Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

A veteran of over thirty years as pianist and conductor at the renowned Lyric Opera of Chicago, Philip Morehead has extensive experience in the operatic repertory. He has conducted a widely varied list of concert works and contemporary music and performed in as varied a repertory of chamber music. A consummate musician, he has coached singers in operatic and concert repertory and given master classes in vocal and chamber music interpretation and performance. Philip is interviewed by his son, and host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, James Morehead. Philip Morehead on the web: https://philipmorehead.com/ Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: . Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Tyler Mills is the author of City Scattered (winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award), as well as Hawk Parable (winner of the Akron Poetry Prize), Tongue Lyre (winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award), and Low Budget Movie (co-authored with Kendra DeColo and winner of the Diode Editions Chapbook Prize). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet, is a Founding Editor of The Account, and lives in Brooklyn. Connect with Tyler Mills on the web: tylermills.com and Instagram (@tylermpoetry) Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead's books canvas and portraits of red and gray are on sale now: . Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Poet Laureate of Dublin, California and Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead and poet and author Morgan Liphart have a conversation about what they've learned publishing poetry. This event was originally a live (virtual) event that included audience questions. Morgan Liphart's debut book Barefoot & Running is on-sale now. Follow Morgan Liphart on Instagram (@mliphart) and on the website: morganliphart.com. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Love poems on greeting cards give poetry a bad name. There are so many beautiful and challenging poems anchored on the theme of "love" that avoid greeting card clichés. The latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast features images of love-inspired poetry from five wonderful poets. Lisa Delan - The morning after Griffin Epstein - Poem for our tin anniversary and Evening, after James Schuyler K.T. Reid - California Dreamin’ David Radavich - When You Went Missing Lawrence Bridges - The Switch Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Alicia (A. E.) Stallings is an American poet and translator who has lived in Greece since 1999. She has published four collections of poetry, most recently LIKE (FSG), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. Her most recent book of verse translation is the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (illustrated!) with Paul Dry Books. She has a Selected poems forthcoming shortly from FSG, and FSG is also reissuing her first collection, Archaic Smile. She has received fellowships from the USA Artists, Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. A.E. Stallings is interviewed and recites several poems from her books. She can be followed on Twitter (@ae_stallings) and her website. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Zoe Norvell has been designing book covers professionally since 2011, and has designed nearly 700 covers to date. Zoe started her career in New York City as an in-house designer at Simon & Schuster and then moved over to Penguin Random House. In 2015, she began freelancing full-time. Today, Zoe is based in her hometown of Washington, DC, and when not global pandemic times, loves to travel and will occasionally bring work with her on the road. Zoe recently launched “INeedaBookInterior.com”, which she describes as “a small company that does one thing really well: creating impeccable book interiors, while making the process super simple for clients.” Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022). He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com. Twitter: @SeanSingerPoet Sean Singer Editorial Services Subscribe to Sean's email newsletter about thinking through poetry: The Sharpener. Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Corey Van Landingham is the author of Antidote (The Ohio State University Press, 2013) and Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens (Tupelo Press, 2022). She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2014 and 2020, Boston Review, The New Yorker, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Ashland, Oregon, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois. Corey's website: coreyvanlandingham.com Follow Corey on Instagram (@cvlingham)  Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

On this week's episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, which has featured interviews with poet Olivia Gatwood, artist Kari Byron, musician-poet Lisa Marie Simmons, director-animator Gaia Alari and many more, we are excited to feature poetry inspired by new beginnings from four wonderful poets: Sarah Bricault - when I close my eyes and think apple Nikita Jayaprakash - Trio of poems: Grim Reaper, Counting on the Porch, and Swings, Church and Shoes Patricia Cannon - Inspiration Colleen Charlette - Two-Word Flip The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads The moment before totality (duet for Sun and Moon). James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Angie Trudell Vasquez is a Mexican-American writer and the current poet laureate of Madison. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published the first half of her MFA thesis, In Light, Always Light, in 2019, and will publish the second half, My People Redux, in 2022. She became a Macondista in 2021. Angie's website: angietrudellvasquez.com Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Jessica Sabo is a former classical ballet dancer and writer whose work focuses on the intersection between eating disorders, trauma, and sexuality. Her poems and essays have appeared in publications by 805 Lit + Art, Inklette Magazine, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among others. Her work has been anthologized with ChannelMarker Literary Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Damaged Goods Press, and is forthcoming with Quillkeepers Press. Jessica was selected as a finalist for the Adelaide Literary Award in Poetry in 2020 and is also the author of a chapbook, A Body of Impulse, (dancing girl press & studio, 2021). A west-coast transplant and Virginian at heart, she currently lives in southern Nevada with her wife and two rescue dogs, one of which has wings. Jessica's poem Death March was included in the Scary Poetry episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast (Oct 2021). The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast host James Morehead reads The moment before totality (duet for Sun and Moon). James Morehead's debut book canvas is on sale now: https://tinyurl.com/canvasamazon. Follow James Morehead on Twitter (@dublinranch) and Instagram (@viewlesswings), and on the website viewlesswings.com. Submit your poetry to Viewless Wings: https://viewlesswings.submittable.com/submit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support